Stanford researchers propose a new way to locate water leaks within the tangle of aging pipes found beneath many cities. The improvement could save time, money and billions of gallons of water….
‘Surfing attack’ hacks Siri, Google with ultrasonic waves
Ultrasonic waves don’t make a sound, but they can still activate Siri on your cellphone and have it make calls, take images or read the contents of a text to a stranger….
MIT’s new system allows self-driving cars to navigate in Snow
MIT’s new system allows a self-driving car to situate itself in snowy conditions. Car companies have been feverishly working to improve the technologies behind self-driving cars. But so far even the most…
Scientists Turn Fossil Fuels Into Pure Diamonds
Stanford researchers have found that with the right amount of pressure and surprisingly little heat, a substance found in fossil fuels can transform into pure diamond. It sounds like alchemy: take a…
Diabetes in mice cured rapidly using human stem cell strategy
Researchers have converted human stem cells into insulin-producing cells and demonstrated in mice infused with such cells that blood sugar levels can be controlled and diabetes functionally cured for nine months. The…